Re: Selecting parts of an image with mask tools

Hi Steve,

check your property bar icons - probably set to wrong mode. Set to 
yellow in pic

Jeff

    I have an image in CMYK in which the yellow and black have been removed 
leaving cyan and magenta (we are actually going to print this job with two 
spot colours) on a transparent background. The cyan and magenta have been 
enhanced by increasing the saturation of both these channels. On some parts 
of this image I want to remove the cyan completely and increase magenta to 
100%. Okay, that's easy using mask tools and channel mixer or whatever.
    I selected a portion of only a few pixels which I want to do this to and 
using the wand mask tool and paint bucket achieved what I wanted to do. I 
then decided I wanted the area to grow by a couple of pixels. Normally, I 
would use the wand mask tool and expand the mask and fill with colour, BUT 
for some reason, after my first operation on this area of the image, PP will 
NOT let me select this area with some of the mask tools, namely the magic 
wand tool, irrespective of how sensitive I set the tolerance setting. 
Instead, it selects areas outside of the area I want to select. What is 
going on here?
    I suspect a bug here. There are other work-arounds, I know, but would be 
interested in anyone else experiencing this unexpected behaviour.
Steve W (in Aus) 

Just out of curiosity (since we have not seen the actual image), would it be
possible to accuratly recreate the image using the TRACE tool ? If so, then you
can start fresh.

Ted

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      I have an image in CMYK in which the yellow and black have been removed 
  leaving cyan and magenta (we are actually going to print this job with two 
  spot colours) on a transparent background. The cyan and magenta have been 
  enhanced by increasing the saturation of both these channels. On some parts 
  of this image I want to remove the cyan completely and increase magenta to 
  100%. Okay, that's easy using mask tools and channel mixer or whatever.
      I selected a portion of only a few pixels which I want to do this to and 
  using the wand mask tool and paint bucket achieved what I wanted to do. I 
  then decided I wanted the area to grow by a couple of pixels. Normally, I 
  would use the wand mask tool and expand the mask and fill with colour, BUT 
  for some reason, after my first operation on this area of the image, PP will 
  NOT let me select this area with some of the mask tools, namely the magic 
  wand tool, irrespective of how sensitive I set the tolerance setting. 
  Instead, it selects areas outside of the area I want to select. What is 
  going on here?
      I suspect a bug here. There are other work-arounds, I know, but would be 
  interested in anyone else experiencing this unexpected behaviour.
  Steve W (in Aus)